Lister, Joseph

PUB. DATE

January 2009

SOURCE

World Book Science Dataset;1/1/2009, p1

SOURCE TYPE

Encyclopedia

DOC. TYPE

Reference Entry

ABSTRACT

Lister, Joseph (1827-1912), a British surgeon, founded antiseptic surgery. Before his time, the most trivial operation was likely to be followed by infection, and death occurred in up to 50 percent of all surgical cases.

The article presents information on British surgeon Joseph Lister. Lister is the first surgeon who introduced the standards of hygiene in hospitals to help combat infection. Lister's clinical observation that led to the introduction of hygiene standards is cited. The hygiene standards promoted...

Dr. Archibald Edward Malloch was a surgeon whose life and work were greatly influenced by Joseph Lister and his revolutionary system of antiseptic surgery. This paper describes how a young Canadian medical man came to introduce Lister's system to North America in 1869 and studies his career in...